Enneagram Self-Sabotage, When Your Greatest Strength Becomes Your Biggest Problem

About this episode

This episode explores how the strengths of each Enneagram type can become self-sabotaging behaviors and offers insights on recognizing these shifts.

Every Enneagram type has a strength that helps them shine, until it gets overused and starts causing damage. In this episode, Damon and Kelly unpack how each type’s greatest gift can quietly turn into a defense mechanism, and how to spot that shift before it hurts your relationships, leadership, or self-awareness. From Type 1’s integrity becoming criticism, to Type 9’s peace becoming disappearance, this episode walks through all nine types with practical examples and honest reflection. You’ll...

People in this episode

Hosts: Damon, Kelly

Topics covered

• Enneagram types
• self-sabotage
• strengths and weaknesses
• relationships
• leadership
• self-awareness

Keywords

• Enneagram
• self-sabotage
• strengths
• relationships
• leadership
• self-awareness
• Type 1
• Type 9

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Books & works: Enneagram

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